Pictured on January 16, 2019, cells within the Suffolk County Correctional Jail Facility in Riverhead, New York. (Image courtesy of Getty Images/J. Conrad Williams Jr./Newsday RM)
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Orenthal James “OJ” Vance was sentenced to 75 months in federal prison on Wednesday.
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Vance, the manager of a Dallas Extended Stay America, allowed drug dealers to operate in the hotel.
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Prosecutors say Vance “routinely” tipped off drug traffickers when law enforcement would raid the hotel.
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Orenthal James “OJ” Vance was sentenced to 75 months in federal prison on Wednesday.
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Vance, the manager of a Dallas Extended Stay America, allowed drug dealers to operate in the hotel.
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Prosecutors say Vance “routinely” tipped off drug traffickers when law enforcement would raid the hotel.
DALLAS—A hotel manager in Dallas who permitted drug dealers to operate there received a sentence of more than six years behind bars.
The Extended Stay America hotel on Vantage Point Drive in Dallas was once managed by 44-year-old Orenthal James “OJ” Vance.
Vance “routinely” alerted narcotics traffickers when police would raid the hotel, according to the prosecution.
Frequently, the drug sellers belonged to the gang known as the “Hamilton Park Posse.”
According to court records, Vance rented rooms to drug dealers and received cash payments for placing them in rooms that were marked as vacant or under fictitious or deceased people’s identities.
According to police, collaborating offenders claimed that the “majority” of the Vantage Point’s rooms were utilized for illegal purposes.
Sources told law enforcement that Vance requested assistance in removing a dead corpse from the property, and that he had footage on his phone showing a woman being kicked and assaulted at the hotel and another showing a man on the ground being assaulted in the parking lot.
Vance entered a guilty plea in July 2024 after being charged in July 2022, and on Wednesday, he was given a sentence of 75 months in federal prison.
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The Northern District of Texas U.S. Attorney’s Office provided the information for this article.
The Northern District of Texas U.S. Attorney’s Office provided the information for this article.
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